Where We Were | Have Been | Will Be (2025) was born in the spaces between grief, loss, joy, understanding, fear, and nuance. Drawing on the seminal theoretical frameworks of Gloria Anzaldúa, Judith Butler, and Omi Salas-SantaCruz, this research asks: how can trans* and non-binary epistemologies function as a method for co-collaborative, process-driven dance-making through the liminal spaces of nepantla? Through a polymodal creative process grounded in testimonio, bodily acts, and cariño, this thesis examines how layered dimensions of identity and selfhood are generated, expressed, and witnessed across interdisciplinary practices. The work positions dance and dancemaking as decolonial frameworks that resist binary logics by foregrounding process over product and privileging embodied knowledge as a vital mode of inquiry. In doing so, it articulates an emergent epistemic methodology for trans* dance‑making that centers selfhood, care, and liminality as core components of artistic research. This research asserts that embodiment is not merely a descriptive term but an active, ongoing state of becoming through which we can negotiate and reimagine the in-between spaces of selfhood.